@horse hope you're keeping yourself safe and healthy from the latest variant. I already know a couple of people that's come down with the new variant and most of them have received full vaccinations.
Hope you and your family stay safe too.
My policy is very simple. Since that day I heard that someone said, some expert, that most dangerous things to man is a virus, and other humans, that made it simple, avoid people if we can.
The NFL found that last year, no player got the coronavirus while on the field playing football. Not one according to them, a multi-billion dollar operation. The players who did catch the virus, were from interactions during the week, not on the playing field during the game. Clearly, it is very difficult, or the chances are close to zero, of catching SAR-CoV-2 outside.
This new variant, Omicron, seems more like a cold. I think the common cold can kill people too, usually no one is too concerned. The common cold is a coronavirus too. Omicron seems to affect the upper respiratory system, while the original virus may cause an infection in the lower lung aka pneumonia.
If that pneumonia is untreated or if treatment is ineffective, then the patient dies or can suffer long term injuries from that.
Just ranting now, I know, I have a habit of that, what kills is not necessarily the virus, it is the pneumonia or other types of organ failure. The coronavirus caused that, but we still know how exactly someone will be killed by it, when they got sick and an organ is failing. It did not register to people. It will be the pneumonia that will kill that person on the respirator. If the deniers are not concerned about the virus, should they be concerned about an unknown pneumonia?
At such troubling times, I am remind of the words of President Trump, drink some bleach or something like that.
